The state provides charity care funding to hospitals to compensate them for treating uninsured or under-insured patients.

In 2014, New Jersey provided $675 million in charity care funding, compared to 2015’s $650 million. The decrease comes from charity care’s decline by more than $30 million between 2010 and 2012, with more decreases expected due to health reforms such as Medicaid expansions.

For South Jersey’s area hospitals, the effect is varied.

Kennedy Health System and Inspira’s three locations — Vineland, Woodbury and Elmer — will each be receiving more in charity care funding than they did last year, while The Memorial Hospital of Salem County will be receiving more than $57,000 less than in 2014.

George Gennaoui, a spokesman for the Salem hospital said the organization has just received the news of the decrease and is “still working to understand the state’s new formula” in allocating charity care funding.

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“A decrease of any amount is disappointing given the challenging times for all hospitals,” he said in an emailed statement. “Contrary to what’s been reported, our hospital’s charity/uncompensated care has remained steady over the past four years, averaging $11.6 million per year since 2008.”

Teaching hospitals across the state will see about $100 million in GME funding, but that money is being redistributed to programs that are growing from those that are shrinking.

Kennedy Health System, which has locations in Washington Township, Cherry Hill and Stratford, will be seeing a decrease of about $800,000 in its GME funding.

“We’re not thrilled about it and we are trying to work with the state to come up with what would be a more equitable use of those fundings,” said Gary Terrinoni, Kennedy’s chief financial officer.

Kennedy’s recent partnership with Rowan University’s School of Osteopathic Medicine should have put the hospital in a group to receive more funding for graduate school, according to Terrinoni.

“We consider ourselves an academic medical center since we are affiliated with the school,” he said. “Because of that status there should be different recognition.”

For Inspira, which is receiving a total of $699,071 more in 2015 between its two teaching hospitals in Woodbury and Vineland, the additional funding is a welcome revelation.

“It provides a great benefit to the community because we bring in students. With the growth of our program, our goal is to bring an education setting to our hospitals,” said Greg Potter, a spokesman for Inspira. “It brings the latest and greatest perspectives in medicine to our community.”